CREASTRIAN

CREASTRIAN is a German skincare brand built around a single product: Creastrian Mama, a 250 ml body cream intended to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy. The brand is run from an address in Mannheim, and its cream is formulated around an extract of Centella asiatica, a plant better known as tiger grass or gotu kola [1].

The brand's whole case rests on one idea. It argues that stretch marks are a form of scar tissue that cannot be reversed once they appear, so care has to start early. To support that argument, CREASTRIAN leans heavily on a clinical trial from 1991, and the way it describes that trial differs between its own website and the product leaflet. The brand remains active, with new articles on its website as recently as September 2026.

Little is publicly known about how CREASTRIAN began. No founding year, founder or origin story is given by the company, and the brand has not been the subject of independent press coverage.

What can be established is the corporate setting. The legal notice on the brand's website names AMS Advanced Medical Services GmbH, at Am Exerzierplatz 2 in Mannheim, as the operator of the site, and the same company holds the site's copyright [3]. The homepage, meanwhile, names a second company at the same address, Adano GmbH, as the manufacturer ("Hersteller") [1]. An online pharmacy listing for the cream also gives Adano GmbH as supplier and manufacturer, with the same Mannheim address [8]. No source states outright which of the two companies owns the CREASTRIAN brand itself.

CREASTRIAN presents itself as a prevention brand. Its homepage explains that because stretch marks are scar tissue, there is still no cure for those that already exist, and it calls active, timely prevention essential [1]. The tagline describes the product as a natural care cream with a clinically confirmed active ingredient against stretch marks.

The company frames this in terms of pregnancy in particular, but not exclusively. According to its homepage, the same cream can also be used for stretch marks caused by rapid growth during puberty, weight gain, sport or weak connective tissue. Its product page describes it as suitable for teenagers and adults prone to stretch marks, especially those who have had them before.

CREASTRIAN also aims the product at the people who prepare women for birth. The company says it considers it essential that Creastrian Mama be part of every birth preparation, and it offers a package of 12 tubes for pregnancy and birth-preparation courses.

Alongside the efficacy message, the brand takes a more measured tone in its advice articles. A June 2026 post on Centella asiatica states that the plant is "kein Wundermittel" (no miracle cure) and that skin care cannot fully control biological processes. A September 2026 post adds that no cream can guarantee that stretch marks will not form, and that stretch marks are not a sign of poor skin care. The product FAQ answers the question of guaranteed results the same way: no, but most of the pregnant women in the cited research did not develop stretch marks.

Creastrian Mama is the brand's only product. It is a 250 ml cream in a tube, meant to be massaged into areas prone to stretch marks, such as the belly, breasts, hips, upper arms, buttocks and thighs.

According to the brand, the formula combines a concentrated Centella asiatica extract with hyaluronic acid, jojoba oil, vitamin E and glycerin. The company says the tiger grass extract supports the formation of new connective-tissue fibres, helping the skin adapt to heavy strain, while vitamin E keeps the tissue elastic and jojoba oil absorbs quickly. The product page states that the cream contains 0.25 % tiger grass extract from controlled cultivation [2]. The product leaflet also lists sunflower oil among the active ingredients and describes the cream as dermatologically tested.

The brand describes the current version as having an improved formula. It says the cream is free from parabens, perfume, dyes, mineral oils, silicones and PEGs (a common group of synthetic thickeners and emulsifiers). The company recommends an average of four tubes per pregnancy.

Usage guidance varies across the brand's own materials. The homepage recommends applying the cream at least twice a day from the moment a pregnancy becomes known, while the product page says at least once a day, and the leaflet says morning and evening. All three advise leaving out the nipple and areola while breastfeeding.

### Scent and ingredient list

Two points about the formula are not stated consistently. The product page lists the cream as free from perfume, but the homepage describes it as free from synthetic perfume, announces a new version "mit neutralem Duft" (with a neutral scent) and elsewhere says it was developed with a natural scent [1].

The ingredient list also appears in two versions. The INCI list on the product page, the homepage FAQ and the product leaflet ends with glyceryl caprylate, sodium levulinate, phenoxyethanol and sodium anisate. A second list, in the FAQ on the product-information page, instead includes phenethyl alcohol and ends with coumarin, a fragrant plant compound [2]. The brand does not explain the difference; the second list may reflect an earlier formula.

The central claim in CREASTRIAN's marketing is "wissenschaftlich bestätigte Wirksamkeit", or scientifically confirmed efficacy. It rests on a double-blind trial published in 1991 by Mallol and colleagues in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science, titled "Prophylaxis of Striae gravidarum with a topical formulation" [1].

The brand's homepage summarises that study in some detail. In a group of 41 pregnant women using a cream containing 0.25 % Centella asiatica, 39 % fewer stretch marks developed than in a comparison group given a cream without the active ingredient. Among women who had already developed stretch marks during puberty, the brand reports a preventive effect of 89 %, while all the women in the placebo group developed further stretch marks during pregnancy [1]. The company states that Creastrian Mama contains Centella asiatica at exactly the concentration used in that study.

The trial tested a Centella cream, not Creastrian Mama itself, and the brand's materials do not always describe it the same way. A heading on the same homepage reads that 90 % had fewer skin tears. The product leaflet goes further, stating that in the 1991 study 90 % of predisposed women who had stretch marks from puberty developed no new pregnancy stretch marks "mit Creastrian Mama", attributing the result directly to the product [7]. The more detailed text on the brand's homepage, by contrast, presents the study as a test of a cream with the same active ingredient at the same strength.

Beyond the 1991 trial, the product FAQ lists further literature on the topic, including a 2005 Cochrane Review on creams for preventing stretch marks in pregnancy, a randomised trial from 2012, and review articles from 2013 and 2015 on Centella asiatica and on the treatment of stretch marks.

The brand also cites its own consumer test. According to the homepage, 10 women used the cream daily for 10 weeks; more than 80 % said no stretch marks had formed, all of them said their skin did not itch after use, and the group gave the product an average school grade of 1.5 on a scale from 1 (very good) to 6 [1]. This is an in-house test with a small group rather than an independent clinical study.

The brand's history is sparsely dated. Two changes to the product are announced on its website without dates: a reformulation, described as an improved recipe free from parabens, perfume, dyes, mineral oils, silicones and PEGs, and a new version with a neutral scent.

In 2026 the brand ran an advice blog under the Creastrian Mama name. Posts appeared on 8 June 2026, explaining Centella asiatica and its use in pregnancy, and on 15 September 2026, on when to start caring for the belly during pregnancy [6].

CREASTRIAN is active. Its German-language web shop is live, and its most recent visible activity is the advice article published on 15 September 2026. The brand operates on a single-country scale in Germany, and its range still consists of the one 250 ml cream. Parts of the homepage are out of date: as of October 2026 it still displayed promotional offers that had ended in December 2024 and January 2025.

The brand maintains accounts on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook.